Chapter 1. Threading Basics

In this chapter, we will cover the basic tasks to work with threads in C#. You will learn the following recipes:

• Creating a thread in C#
• Pausing a thread
• Making a thread wait
• Aborting a thread
• Determining a thread state
• Thread priority
• Foreground and background threads
• Passing parameters to a thread
• Locking with a C# lock keyword
• Locking with a Monitor construct
• Handling exceptions